Download or read book Drought at Dawn written by Mazi Ngozi Ottih and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought at the Niger and Benue rivers may have adversely affected the population of Southeastern Nigeria, but their eclipse cannot be attributed to it. The unruly activities of political thugs in the former Western region of Nigeria otherwise called the Wild West, led a few military men, mostly of the ranks of major in the Nigerian army, and mainly of the former Eastern region of Nigeria or Igbo origin, to embark on indiscriminate killing of seasoned politicians, mostly of other regions in the country, and that led to their decline as a people. With the indignation of many and antagonism of all others, a decision was made to undermine their status and that began a struggle, and a conflict and eventually war. As the conflict intensified, the Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba ethnic populations (Northern and Western regions of the country) capitalized on the vulnerable state of the Igbo's (Eastern region) and eliminated all advantages accrued to the group. The victorious group instituted policies and promulgated decrees that confiscated majority shares of foreign firms in the country, and that included firms owned by seceding Eastern Nigerians or Biafran nationals. Another policy converted Nigeria pounds to Naira and decimated the financial strength of the seceding Eastern region, thereby undermining prospects for a peaceful resolution of the conflict or chances of regaining substantial economic growth in the reabsorbed region after the drought of war. With the demise of the Biafran republic, efforts were made to reintegrate the former Eastern Nigeria with the rest of the country, but the destructive effects of the indigenization policy and twenty Naira deprivation sin induced the migration of numerous Eastern Nigerians to other parts of the world, and that undercut the cerebral base of the region and ruined prospects for a quick recovery at the end of war. Initially, they migrated to countries that gave sanctuary to Biafran nationals, such as Gabon, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Zambia, Haiti, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, etc., but have since wandered to faraway cities, such as London, Washington DC, Paris, New York, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Chicago, New Delhi, Houston, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bonn, Dallas, Johannesburg, San Francisco, Berlin, Miami, Stockholm, Helsinki, Boston, Brasilia, Detroit, Seattle, Brussels, Philadelphia, etc., and visits their ancestral homes occasionally. They have also formed associations that promote mutual interests, and with that, the harmony that harnessed tremendous advantage in the first republic and ensured entrepreneurial expedience may have been restored. And although Nigeria deprivation sin delayed recovery in the reabsorbed region, it failed to dampen the entrepreneurial zeal of the population, though with the awareness of the futility of her policies, she altered strategy and recruited Igbo technocrats to serve in government. But by then the damage had been done; the society had been infested with predatory tendency, insecurity, moral decadence, and myriad corruption. However, with the inclusion of Igbo entrepreneurial expedience and intrinsic dynamism, a valuable sector of the economy was restored. But even with that, the absence of standardized structure in the public sector diluted efforts to improve the economy and enabled a selective few to amass enormous wealth, assume impenetrable powers, and the society succumbed to their wimps and propagated their values, and that provoked the conflicts that still enrages in several parts of the country. The economy was ruined under the leadership of military hierarchy and remain sour in the midst of their influence over the affairs of the country. With corrupted leaders at the helm of affairs, the deprivation of economic power that usually occurs with defeat at war was allowed to continue for a prolonged period, and that undermined prospects for a quick recovery after the droughts of war.
Download or read book The Masks of Drought written by William Everson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dawn of Green written by Harriet Ritvo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred miles south to the burgeoning industrial city and its workforce. This feat of civil engineering—and of natural resource diversion—inspired one of the first environmental struggles of modern times. The Dawn of Green re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to supply the needs of a growing urban population. Bringing to vivid life the colorful and strong-minded characters who populated both sides of the debate, noted historian Harriet Ritvo revisits notions of the natural promulgated by romantic poets, recreationists, resource managers, and industrial developers to establish Thirlmere as the template for subsequent—and continuing—environmental struggles.
Download or read book A Complete Chinese English Dictionary written by Pengyun Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Depression and Drought written by Dawn Lucas Stapp and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Drought of Sam Dakota written by Dawn Allen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drought Early Warning System written by Muni Rathnam Pantula and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encompasses the characterisation of meteorological drought by the newly invented index called “SPI – Standardised Precipitation index” approved by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in June 2011. It is a simple index with precipitation as the only parameter and can be computed for different scales (1-3-6-12-24 months) and compared across regions with different climatic zones. The author has depicted graphs with regard to trends, onset, end, magnitude with dates of occurrence of droughts over a period of 102 years with regard to rainfall and temperature with the aid of SPI and SPEI, for Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, India. To characterise the agricultural drought, climatological water balance was carried for a period of 30 years for the data. In this book a composite index called “Indian drought monitor” with ten indicators and indices has been developed for releasing drought information weekly considering and incorporating review from a group of climatologists, extension agents and others across the nation. This will lead the country economically forward.
Download or read book written by 張鵬雲 and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the U S Department of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yearbook of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pineapple 2nd Edition written by Garth M Sanewski and published by CABI. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the first edition, this second edition is intended to be an all-inclusive publication for those interested in pineapple production or just wanting to better understand the plant. This second edition builds on the accumulated experience of the first edition authors by including new authors from a wider number of producing countries, including new chapters and new developments and by taking advantage of new publishing technology. It contains 13 chapters dealing with topics on pineapple history, distribution and world production; morphology, anatomy and taxonomy; origin and evolution; varieties and breeding; biotechnology; plant growth and physiology; cultural system; plant nutrition; organic production; other uses (e.g. ornamental, source of fibre and enzymes, animal feed); inflorescence and fruit development and yield; pests, diseases, weeds and their management; postharvest physiology, handling and storage.
Download or read book The Abridgment written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spinner written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spinner written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dawn s Early Light written by Johnny Sundstrom and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1849. The wagon train moved slowly along the parched Oregon Trail in the empty desolation that was to become known as southern Wyoming. Martha Bradford was told she must discard either her cast-iron cook stove or her pianola to lighten the burden for the oxen. She has them both unloaded and then refuses to go on any further: “She declared that if the only things that made her life worth living were being left behind, they’d just as well leave both the stove and the pianola, and her with them.” This novel is based on the next six generations of her family and the first ranch settled in that part of the country. Here are real cowboys and cowgirls, Indians of the past and present, a faith-challenged evangelist, a militant suffragette, newspaper owner, and many others, linked together by their hard work, rowdy pleasures, their spiritual beliefs or non-beliefs, and stitched into a panoramic story-quilt representing the dream of the Morning Star and its hopeful annunciation of a new day rising in the Old West.
Download or read book Autoecology and Ecophysiology of Woody Shrubs and Trees written by Ratikanta Maiti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest trees and shrubs play vital ecological roles, reducing the carbon load from the atmosphere by using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and by the storage of carbon in biomass and wood as a source of energy. Autoecology deals with all aspects of woody plants; the dynamism of populations, physiological traits of trees, light requirements, life history patterns, and physiological and morphological characters. Ecophysiology is defined by various plant growth parameters such as leaf traits, xylem water potential, plant height, basal diameter, and crown architecture which are, in turn, influenced by physiological traits and environmental conditions in the forest ecosystem. In short, this book details research advances in various aspects of woody plants to help forest scientists and foresters manage and protect forest trees and plan their future research. Autoecology and Ecophysiology of Woody Shrubs and Trees is intended to be a guide for students of woody plant autoecology and ecophysiology, as well as for researchers in this field. It is also an invaluable resource for foresters to assist in effective management of forest resources.
Download or read book Plant Production and Management under Drought Conditions written by J.F. Stone and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some years, workers have been investigating the possibilities of integrating knowledge from soil and atmospheric sciences, crop physiology, and genetics in order to model crop response to water stress and breed plants for drought resistance.This book turns the theory into practice. Information, gathered from recent symposia and research journals, have been built upon by the authors. Up-to-date practices are cited, new practices devised, and approaches for scientific applications specified. The authors have devised numerous examples and applications for their approaches. Attention has been given to making these approaches credible in the light of economic and energy limitations. Because application of such practice over a wide area requires wide-areal sensing and measurement, recent advances in remote sensing for these purposes are outlined with methodology for practical application.The book will be of interest to a wide readership including crop managers and producers, soil scientists, agricultural micrometeorologists, plant breeders, water managers and stress physiologists.
